The keeper of the royal secrets. Knyazeva A.

Polina received a message about the death of Alina Bekesheva - the wife of a famous politician by e -mail. Instead of the image of Alina, her own photo was attached to the letter! And the most amazing thing - in reality, this murder was committed only the next day. The victim was crucified, and then they were put on Russian clothes of the 16th century...

In the bedroom of Alina Bekesheva, a copy of the ancient fresco was discovered, depicting the engagement of Grand Duke Ivan III with Sophia Paleolog. It was Sophia who brought to Moscow a part of the famous library - the very one that Ivan the Terrible later hid in an unknown place...

, having arrived in the Bekeshevs mansion and descending with the investigator to the basement not indicated on the scheme of the house, Polina was horrified. In a high vertical niche there was a wooden cross blackened from time to time. On it, with his hands spread, a crucified mummy hung...